All I remember about this movie was a woman worked on a cleaning crew that cleaned up messy crime scenes. I don’t think that featured particularly strongly in the plot, but it might have. It may or may not have been subtitled. I’m almost positive it was a low budget independent film.
No, it is not Sunshine Cleaning. (Which I liked.) That movie makes this one impossible to google. The one I’m thinking of is much older, and as I recall much darker. I think I saw it in the late 90s early 00s. It was probably released in the 90s.
Anyone know what I’m talking about?
Curdled sound like it? 1996, low budget, dark sense of humor.
Yeah, the lead actress looks exactly like who I remember. Either that’s the movie, or the short it’s based on is the one I originally saw.
Thanks much; that’s been bugging me ever since I first heard about Sunshine Cleaning.
EDIT: I would just like to point out how frustrating the imdb keyoword search is. I figured Sunshine Cleaning would have a keyword in common with the movie I was thinking of, but of course no joy. How stupid is it that Curdled has the following keyowrd attached to it and Sunshine Cleaning does not:
Post Murder Cleaning Service
I mean, come on!
Yeah, keywords aren’t much help on IMDb IMO, since there’s little to no standardization on them. I used Google instead, and added “-sunshine” to whatever group of words I used (I think “crime scene cleaning movie”) to remove the hits on Sunshine Cleaning.
For what it’s worth, I remember a funny commercial about this subject. Two cleaning women let themselves into a mansion through the back door. They find the house is in a terrible mess. So they start working cleaning it up, while complaining about how rich people live like pigs. The two of them are shown working their way through the house room by room (I believe it was an ad for cleaning products) and they finally end up at the front foyer with the house spotless. To avoid walking through the clean house, they’re leaving through the front door. Then as they open the door, they find the crime scene tape and a crowd of police outside that were keeping people from entering the house until the forensic team got there.